I’m a pretty progressive gal. I make “Socially Conscious, Totally Fabulous” my mantra, and I’ve got my green routine down to a science.

To the casual celebrity gossip and 90s TV watcher, Roseanne Barr seeking the nomination of the Green Party to run for president may seem odd, but it’s all a perfect progression for the comedian-macadamia nut farmer-activist.

With a background in finance and law and four young boys, Anna Hackman was an unlikely candidate to become a blogger who specializes in green building.

What were our Best Of Green Architects from 2010 smoking when they came up with this?

Sea urchins appear to be the lowliest of marine creatures—the painfully prickly echinoderms sit at the bottom of the ocean, feeding on algae far beneath the sea’s majestic swimmers. But there’s one set of landlubbers that can’t get enough of the briny deep’s ugliest residents: Sushi eaters. Green sea urchin populations have plummeted in North America, thanks in large part to rising demands for uni, a sweet, creamy dish made from sea urchin gonads.

Filed under: Green Culture , Hybrid , Honda Heather Peters is suing Honda in small-claims court in Torrance, California over the lackluster fuel economy she’s gotten out of her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid. It isn’t really a new lawsuit, it’s one that sprung from Peters not signing onto the settlement of an earlier class-action lawsuit brought by one John True, who sued Honda over the same issue

Before decamping to Cancun for a week, my friends Amy and Dave asked me if I could cat sit their little ones, Merle and Mona. What was the first thing that ran through my head a solid three weeks before being handed the keys to their one-and-a-half bedroom Brooklyn apartment??While the cat owners are away, the green home auditor will play.? ? Last month, I performed an informal?green home audit at chez Mom and Dad.

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Ford , Washington DC Auto Show For the second year in a row, Ford drove off with the Green Car Journal Green Car Vision award at the Washington Auto Show , this time with the C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle.

Calling all green bloggers! ? The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Treehugger are holding their third annual World Environment Day Blogging Competition and has announced a call for submissions of blog posts about this years World Environment Day (June 5th) theme – the Green Economy.

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Volkswagen Following the announcement that Škoda would make its own version of Volkswagen ‘s little Up! city car that burns gasoline, it looks like the rumors that first flew over two years ago about an electric version will come true.